Mommy, I love you just the way you are! ~ little M. Hi mommy…is it morning already? ~ little M, when I woke her up early for a doctor’s appointment this week. Thank you for making these cookies, mommy! I can tell you worked really hard on these. ~ little M. Presh. Oh, I messed…

The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen. ~ G. K. Chesterton 

My precious girl… I love her so much. She is beautiful inside and out, and her beautiful heart makes me smile. Her beautiful, amazing heart also worries me… over the past few months we have noticed a few little things about our girl’s heart… She loves to run, and dance, and play, but lately she…

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This precious boy… Don’t let that cute, dimpled smile fool you…he has been an emotional hot mess the past couple of weeks. He is needy, demanding, whiny, and very emotional… and we have had some giant two-year-old-esque tantrums this past week. When I thought about it this week, I realized that he really is more…

Fatherhood requires love, not DNA. Happy father’s day to the man who crosses oceans for his babies, and loves us all so wonderfully…

Just when I’ve gotten used to having a kindergartner, it is at an end. Today, our girl is done with kindergarten, and will be a first grader…just writing it makes me a little sad. Doesn’t first grade sound so grown up?? I haven’t even had her for four years, how is she going into first…

We are DTC (dossier to China)! Our dossier is on it’s way, and we are moving forward. In a week or two our dossier will be logged in, and then we will be waiting for our official letter of approval. Yay!